A pen pal of mine from Brazil imported this. He said it's the first time he's turned on his Wii since Monster Hunter Tri and he doubts he'll probably leave it on for the next several hours. He hasn't told me much about it though. I need to import this soon. It looks amazing.

I took a look at the system messages last week and it turned out I hadn't used my Wii since last April, when I played some Wii Sports with my six year old cousin. Now tyhat I've got Xenoblade, I'm playing two hours a day on avarage. Well, not counting the first weekend, because I had a great excuse to play it 7-8 hours a day: deadline! :D

Also, the game is popping up in several sales top 10s for both Wii games and videogames in general. It seems like it's doing better than even NoE expected, because some people are already having trouble finding a copy. There may be hope for an American release yet!

I gave up on NOA's coy little dance about whether or not they will localize it and I have it coming in the mail.

I haven't turned on my Wii since Sakura Wars came out (unless it was a short gaming session with Wii Sports with my husband). Its been gathering dust for so long because so many of the "good" games that come out are Nintendo stuff we lost interest in (Mario, Zelda) and we see so much crap on the shelves (an M&M game? Really?).

I'm looking forward to playing Xenoblade and the fact that I am having to import an already-translated game because of NOA makes me wonder what is going on in their heads. Glad NOE has three great games lined up!

But have you heard what NoA tends to do with dubs? Besides, even if they don't screw it up, they probably use the some old voice actors we've heard in 100 other RPG's. I once went six months without playing a game that didn't have Johnny Yong Bosch in it and it was not something I did on purpose...

Not that it really matters, I guess. I'm not American, I have no reason to buy the American edition and most people don't play and finish 15+ RPGs a year.